The History of Life on Earth Test Reveiw

Which piece of evidence would be used to show that the woolly mammoth and modern elephants are directly related to each other and share a common ancestor?

• They both eat only plants

• They share similar anatomy such as their trunks

• They both produce one large offspring at a time usually in the spring

• Their social behavior includes traveling in herds for warmth and protection

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Scientists have found several remains of woolly mammoths in the Arctic tundra. Scientists want to recreate the fossilization even in order to understand how the animals died. Which of these experiments would most closely model the process by which a woolly mammoth would have been fossilized?

• Freezing a specimen in the freezer and then embedding it in ice

• Submerging the specimen in epoxy glue and then hardening the glue

• Placing the specimen in wet cement and then removing it to leave an imprint

• Covering a specimen in sand and then exposing it to tremendous pressure

When scientist study geological columns from different parts of the world, they discovered something interesting: the fossils of dinosaurs and many groups of reptiles and marine invertebrates disappeared at the top of the Mesozoic section. What is the most likely explanation of this evidence?

• The new organisms evolved very quickly into new organisms

• Organisms likely migrated to different parts of the world

• An extinction event caused many of the organisms to die off

• The areas no longer had the conditions needed for fossilization

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What organism shares the most recent common ancestor with humans?

• Rats

• Pigeon

• Frog

• Perch

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What traits do crayfish and grasshoppers share in common?

• Wings

• Exoskeleton

• Jaws

• Tetrapod

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Based on the diagram, which organism would make the best index fossil?

• Fossil A

• Fossil B

• Fossil C

• Fossil D

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Based on the diagram, which organism would make the best index fossil?

• Fossil A

• Fossil B

• Fossil C

• Fossil D

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The law of superposition states that...

• the oldest rock layers are formed most recently and found at the top of a geologic column.

• the oldest rock layers are formed earliest and found at the top of a geologic column.

• the oldest rock layers are formed earliest and found at the bottom of a geologic column

• the oldest rock layers are formed during multiple time periods and found in the middle of the geologic column.

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The youngest rock layer is made of what type of rock?

• Granite

• Sandstone

• Limestone

• Shale

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An ordered arrangement of rock layers (based on relative age).

• index fossil

• extinction

• absolute age

• geologic column

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